Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted . |
| 2 | The concept of social responsibility , in contrast , demands that affected interests be treated as ends in themselves , and this will at times require a deviation from long-run profit maximisation . |
| 3 | Thus , the interests of employees , customers , or the local community , for example , may be served only as a means of increasing shareholder wealth and may not be treated as ends in their own right . |
| 4 | A sample of 20 g of fine sediment is suspended in a 1000 ml measuring cylinder charged with water containing dispersant , and thoroughly mixed through end over end rotation or by means of a manual stirrer which travels from the base to the top of the fluid column . |
| 5 | Indoors , though , ordinary window glass generally filters out some of the UV content of sunlight , and the author has never experienced any difficulties of daylight interfering with end results . |
| 6 | in Broadway and you just nip in end of that |
| 7 | If this population is representative of the UK nationally , a substantial number of patients dying from end stage liver disease is being denied the option of liver transplantation because they are not referred for assessment . |
| 8 | He is thirty-seven years old , with a high forehead , and thin hair that stands on end in the slightest breeze . |
| 9 | The hair stands on end and waits to be split |
| 10 | Money figures fuel hopes slump at end |
| 11 | Distributed scheduling , with departmental servers acting as individual data centres , needs to be organised at end user level , also with appropriate security . |
| 12 | If priest/parish usually process at end of mass , be ready to go with friend for cross and book . |
| 13 | Very little ‘ tearout ’ occurred at end of cut |
| 14 | Costed proposals for enhancing and extending the computer network are expected by end September . |
| 15 | Nearly every sausage , I mean there are odd exceptions , are made from ends . |
| 16 | The other half came from end user applications . |
| 17 | However , the UK failed in its attempt to head off the EC Commission , even though it made a last-minute offer to bring forward compliance of five water supplies contaminated with nitrate , from 1995 to 1991–4 , ‘ a shift , ’ according to ENDS , ‘ which , until then , the UK had insisted would be impractical . ’ |
| 18 | Have you seen what he 's done to ends of them , they 've gone silvery , he 's rubbed and rubbed and rubbed |
| 19 | yeah , they now , looking at end ways , it 's like this i n't it ? |
| 20 | While this instrument is in a way value-neutral and may be used for ends of which different commentators may approve or disapprove , it may turn out to be — is indeed intended to be — a powerful force for overdue change , increased coherence and strengthened accountability . |
| 21 | The kind of products they handle are mostly fibres , films and acetate flake , going into end uses ranging from clothing and imitation suede to food packaging , confectionery and spectacle frames . |
| 22 | Um and I think there 's some acknowledgement in these quotes I 've got under end results , classifications and syndromes which um I suppose there 's some acknowledgement that maybe these things were adaptive at the time but maybe once people are grown up they 're not quite so adaptive . |
| 23 | The notion that British spectators would be bored by a regular diet of ‘ continental ’ football ( whatever that means : ‘ patient ’ , I suppose ) once again appeared fatuous as play flowed from end to end without too much of the cynical tackling that used to ruin the Spanish game . |
| 24 | Closed from end of October to beginning of March . |
| 25 | My hairs stand on end . |
| 26 | He is the one lovable who is always the same , rejoicing without end , in infinite happiness . |
| 27 | Suppliers are currently working furiously to bring all manner of object-oriented and distributed computing software services , mechanisms and applications to market — targeted at these types of systems — which wo n't work at end user sites unless those users have properly functioning networks of integrated systems on which to run , says Dawes . |
| 28 | Must dash at end of school to meet Tom , David and John from school ( my own boy and two of his friends ) . |
| 29 | Schedule : Checking — complete by end 1992 |
| 30 | In his speech on May 25 Arafat put forward a five-point plan proposing that : ( i ) an emergency UN military force be sent to the occupied territories to protect Palestinian civilians ; ( ii ) a special UN envoy be appointed to deal with the Palestinian issue ; ( iii ) a UN resolution be passed calling for end to Jewish settlement in the territories ; ( iv ) UN members adopt sanctions against Israel ; and ( v ) the five permanent members of the Security Council convene to prepare for an international conference on the Middle East . |